Posts Tagged ‘powershell’

The more I work with PowerShell the more I love it

So what do you do if you’re in a VM environment and you want/need to reboot your server but you can’t connect via RDP and you can’t connect to the console using the VM Infrastructure Client, and all other attempts to connect just [...]

Translation: Fail Whale for SQL Server Management Studio and Central Management Server for Policy Based Managment using PowerShell…. lol simple eh?
So this is a Microsoft Connect Item in the making…
I had created a PowerShell script to run a bunch of policies against a list of servers that I defined in a ServerList.txt file.  I decided [...]

OK so the last time I handed out a SQL Bacon Nugget of Excellence Award was July 8th for @SQLAgentMan ’s article on Determining Free Space, Consumed Space, and Total Space Allocated for Microsoft SQL Server Databases
and this time around @SQLGal has put something together that can only be described as a SQL Bacon Nugget of [...]

So I’m a firm believer in the KISS theory.

No not THAT KISS… the Keep It Simple Stupid theory.
So when it comes to backups… if I’m not needing to “trick them out” or do anything custom I don’t have any problems with setting up a nice and easy maintenance plan and calling it a day.  I [...]